Title :
Perfect absorption in uniform and nanostructured media
Author :
C. Martijn de Sterke;Björn C.P. Sturmberg;Lindsay C. Botten;Christopher G. Poulton;Kokou B. Dossou;Ross C. McPhedran
Author_Institution :
Centre for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Abstract :
We consider the conditions for perfect absorption in uniform thin-films and in thin gratings. We find that perfect absorption of TE polarized light can occur in gratings composed of weakly absorbing materials.
Keywords :
"Absorption","Gratings","Refractive index","Films","Geometry","Optical device fabrication","Optical polarization"
Conference_Titel :
Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD), 2015 International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-8378-0
DOI :
10.1109/NUSOD.2015.7292875
